世論 What Japan Thinks

Yahoo! JAPAN recently annouced the results of a number of their “Best of 2008″, and one of the categories was what rare products people just couldn’t resist click through to. Voting was (as far as I understand) open to all registered users of Yahoo! JAPAN. The items were collected from all the Hot Items selected by Yahoo! Shopping between January and October of this year.

If you do like the look of Marimokkori, you can in fact buy him here.

Ranking result

Q: What rare product could you just not resist clicking through to?

Rank		Description	Votes
1		Fresh caramel from Hokkaido – just fresh cream, sugar, unsalted butter and honey	18,253
2		Pandor Shorts – Fundoshi for women	7,570
3		Marimokkori cellphone strap – is that an iPhone in his pocket, or is he just pleased to see you?	7,396
4		Sekai no Nabeatsu idiot voice desk calculator – you really don’t want this explained!	6,731
5		Exploding piggie bank	6,706
6		“I’m not like you” T-shirt – ex-prime minister Fukuda’s famous words, translated into ASCII art	4,553
7		Yelling vase – scream into it in private	3,125
8		Masahiro Tanaka’s Magic Baseball – play baseball along with Rakuten Golden Eagles’ star pitcher	2,685
9		Funkey Hula – a wobbly hula-hoop	2,070
10		Curry bath salts, or should that be bath spices?	1,771